How Do I Act in A World Of Injustice Without Losing My Peace

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How Do I Act in A World Of Injustice Without Losing My Peace

by Alejandra Orozco

Type

talks

Activity

Meditation

Suitable for

Everyone

This video is part of the You Are It video series on consciousness and remembering. How Do I Act in a World of Injustice Without Losing My Peace? On acting fully in a world of injustice without losing your peace or your ground. Not about being calm while the world burns, but about finding something in you that the fire cannot claim, and acting from there. A personal exploration of sovereignty, the witness seat, and what it means to feel everything fully while remaining rooted in something the injustice cannot take from you. Drawing on the Bhagavad Gita, the Bodhisattva path, and Baha'u'llah's Seven Valleys and Four Valleys. All videos in this series stand alone and can be watched in any order. Background Music Credit: Wisps of Whorls by Kevin MacLeod. Free Music Archive. License type (CC BY).

Consciousness Peace Sovereignty Emotional Awareness Self Transformation Bhagavad Gita Bodhisattva Inner Stillness

Meet your Teacher

Alejandra Orozco

Canada

Meet your Teacher

Alejandra Orozco

Canada

Transcript

How do I act? In a world of injustice without losing my peace. I have stood in villages. When land was taken. And people. Were treated as disposable. I have written reports that no concerned institution acted on. I have felt the rage. Of witnessing injustice. At not knowing what to do with my hands. And I have also known. And quiet that had nothing to do with the injustice ending. 18. With something in me. Found peace. In its own tending. Soul. Could offer more. Then he was spent. An illustrative moment in the background of guitar. Arjuna. Is on the battlefield. He can see clearly what is wrong. He also cannot move. Not because he's weak. Because. . . He is AWAKENED! To fill. The full weight of it. That moment. I think. Is where many of us live. And Krishna. Does not tell him. To walk away. He does not say, Find your peace first, Then come back. He says. But. . . Act without making the outcome. The center of your identity. Do what is yours to do. And release what happens next. Is what the Gita calls Nishkama Karma. Action! Without attachment to the fruit. Not detachment from caring. Detachment from the need to control. What you're kidding produces. The Bodhisattva tradition Understand these two. The Bodhisattva does not wait to be fully enlightened. Before and after. She acts. Fully in the world. And she uses the word as the practice itself. Every moment of injustice. Becomes a teacher. Not because suffering is good. By because. How we meet it. Shit. What we become. And what we become. Shapes what we can offer. So, The question is not How do I act without feeling? The question is. . . How do I feel everything? Fully. And still remain rooted in something. Than justice. Cannot take from me. Because Here is what I have noticed. In the field. I need myself. When my action. Comes from rage. It often creates mode of what I am fighting against. With my action. Comes from clarity. Something different becomes possible. This is not about being calm. While the world burns. This is not spiritual bypassing. Or pretending injustice is an illusion so we do not have to feel it. The injustice. Is real. The people. April. The harm is real. The E-Network. Is not a retreat from service. It is. What makes selfies? To me. I cheated at this There are two places. Was change happening. The outer world. Where we show up. Resist. Peace. And the e-network. Where we decide who we are. While we do it. There is a line from the Bahá'í writings that points at something. I have failed to be true. THE LOVER It is He who is cool. In the fire of hell. And the wise man is he who is dry in the midst of the sea. Not because the fire is not hostile. Not because the water is not white. But because. . . Something in them. Has been freed. From being determined by the opposite. The Sufis. Called these. The surrender of the small self. This small self. Is one who needs the report to be acted on. Who needs to be seen as effective. Who needs the outcome to justify the effort. And when that one is not running the show. Something. Becomes possible that was not possible before. The fire and the water remain. The injustice remains. They grieve. I mean. They do no longer have the final word. This is what I understand as sovereignty. Not power over others. Not distance from what is happening. But. . . And inner stillness. That the chaos cannot reach. The Place E. U. That remains dry in the sea. And cool in the fire. And here is the practical part. Most of us. And know their permanency. I am certainly not. The emotions still arise. The Rage the grief. The felt plastic. And I do not think. The goal is to stop them from arising. The goal is to notice them arising. Please. That is slightly larger than they are. Is what some traditions call the seed of awareness. That can hold the researchers. The community member. The Grieving Human Exhausted advocate without being collapsed. Into any one of them. Even a small gap. Between the emotion and the response. Change is everything. Because in that gap You are no longer being run by the story the emotion is telling. You are the one. Who notices the story. And from that place to choose. Not perfectly. Not without feeling. Bad food. In my own fieldwork. I had to learn. That I could not stand with people from the place of needing to save them. Dad needs. . . What's about me? What the communities I work with needed. What's so fun? Who could see them clearly. Stand with them steadily. And not collapse. Under the weight. Of what was true. That is tidiness. Is an either-or practice. It is not achieved once. It is chosen. And again. In the moment. When their rage rises. Or the grief emerges. Or the helplessness. Whispers that nothing will change. And Davy Hawkins. Wrote that peace is not a withdrawal from the world. It is a field. And a field. Affects everything within it. What you clear in yourself creates more space for clarity to move through the space you inhabit. What you bring to stillness in yourself. Is one less current of fear. In the field we all share. The only conscience. You can change. It's your own. And that's it. It turns out is not a small thing. It is not a consolation prize. For not being able to fix everything. Eat cheese. THE MOST DIRECT PASS! To changing the field. That everything else grows in you. Soul. The E-Network and the outer work. And not two separate projects. They are the same movement. Seen from two different angles. You show up You act. You feel everything. And you practice returning again. And again. To the place. In you. That the fire has not touched. Not because you are above the fire. Bad because. . . You have found something in you. That the fire never made. And the fire cannot claim. Welcome home.